pontmercy family stanning is an escapist fantasy where you have good parents and neither of them are to blame for the destruction of your life and household but the life and household are still destroyed so it remains reality-adjacent
marius is like john mulaney: has been known to be funny at times but a lot of the comedic value around him has been done to death and he has a lot of issues that people refuse to seriously address also his wife is more iconic than him